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Others, like Pratt, reflected on DeGeneres' gift of friendship and the literal gift she gave him years ago, telling the camera, "We met years ago and have been great friends ever since...our meeting had to do with you giving me a pair of Ellen underwear but in all those years I have never take them off and I have never washed them."

Will Smith rather poetically wished "magic and miracles on your next trip around the sun" to the host, while rapper Eminem wished his "bestie" a happy birthday and assured her that she "doesn't look a day over 20."